Re: [LAU] Google TV device w/ AV out

From: psk <perry@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Jun 19 2013 - 01:00:21 EEST

Open device. Find button. Remove all USB. Press button. Attach otg to PC. Release button. Flash what you need.

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"Jeremy Jongepier [via Linux Audio]" <ml-node+s4202n85669h79@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On 06/18/2013 11:14 AM, Dan MacDonald wrote:
>> Thanks for sharing that Jeremy!
>>
>> What are you going to use your 3066 for?
>>
>
>Hi Dan,
>
>I'd like to use it for doing real-time lo-latency audio. Basically the
>same way I'm using my Raspberry Pi.
>
>> What are your initial impressions and findings?
>
>Ambivalent. It sure is faster than a Raspberry Pi but RK3066 based
>devices have some drawbacks:
>* No easy debugging access, I have yet to find the TXD pad on my RK3066.
>* Fragmented development efforts. There are a gazillion git repositories
>with all kinds of kernel sources, tools, etc.
>* There are simply a lot of RK3066 based devices around and since
>RockChip refuses to release their kernel source code people hacking on
>the RK3066/RK3188 depend on third-party manufacturers that do understand
>how GPL works and release parts of the code. Still there are things
>missing, I'm now searching for a way to access the NAND from within
>Linux but there is no source code anywhere for accessing the NAND on
>RK3066 based devices. Yeah, there are pre-compiled kernel modules but
>those don't work on my install.
>* Closely related to the above bullet, yesterday I decided to flash the
>kernel to the kernel partition only to realize later that now I can't
>boot into anything else but Linux. And I can't flash anything either
>because I can't boot in the bootloader. Apparently I can short two pads
>and have the device boot into recovery but that won't help me either
>because I've flashed the recovery partition with, you guessed it right,
>a Linux kernel.
>* JACK doesn't run on my device it with an external USB interface. It
>starts and then the kernel crashes.
>
>So I'm thinking about getting another TV stick but then a model that is
>easier to debug and that has some more community support.
>
>  It should perform notably
>> faster than your Pi.
>
>It does but development effort is far from finished so it doesn't work
>as good as my Raspberry Pi. Well, at least WiFi works so I can just
>power it up and SSH into it.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jeremy
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